Boon or bane? What Elon Musk, Narayana Murthy, Jack Ma think of AI

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Artificial Intelligence has business leaders divided, with many sounding warning bells over its misuse. A quick look at what top minds in the corporate world have to say about this rapidly growing technology.

Mahindra made it clear that he doesn’t believe that AI is on the brink of putting humans out of work. He retweeted a video compilation showing people working at lightning fast speed and captioned it, “Ok Robots, OK Artificial Intelligence, if you thought you had put us humans out of work, think again. We just delivered a knockout punch!”

JACK MA “The AI, Big Data, is a threat to human beings. AI and robots are going to kill a lot of jobs, because in the future, these will be done by machines… I think AI should support human beings. Technology should always do something that enables people, not disable people,” Ma said at the World Economic Forum recently.

ELON MUSK The CEO of Tesla Motors and founder of SpaceX has been one of the sharpest and most vocal critics of this system. Musk has gone on record to call AI “our biggest existential threat” and that encouraging it is like “summoning the demon”.

Bezos is certainly a fan of AI, calling it an “enabling layer that will improve every business”. He even branded its development as an “amazing renaissance”.

NARAYANA MURTHY The Infosys co-founder thinks that the threats associated with AI are the result of hype. “This whole thing about automation and artificial intelligence is much more hyped than the reality, at-least in software services.

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